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Body of man found by workers by M1 is identified

National Highways Cars on a carriageway. Their headlights are bright as it is dark and they are lined up three-deep in traffic. The opposite carriageway is clear with cars moving freely.National Highways
Police said they were trying to establish a cause of death (pictured is the stretch of the M1 shortly after the body was found)

The body of a man found by road workers in undergrowth next to a motorway has been identified.

On 13 January, Hertfordshire Police was called to a section of the M1 near Watford between junctions five and six.

The force said he was a man aged in his 60s.

A police spokesperson said their thoughts were with the family at this "difficult time".

The death was not being treated as suspicious but the force said it was trying to establish a cause of death.

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